Bank-check.



P. B. JOHNSON.

BANK CHECK.

APPLICATION F|LD MAR. I9. 1915.

Patented Oct. 10,1916.

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9 73-? DOLLARS 4 AND CHARGE To ACCOUNT OF, {I

PRESLEY naomqson, or SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

BANK-CHECK.

4 I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented octiidiieio;

Application flied March 19, 1315. Serial No. 15,497.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PRE-LEY B. Jormson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the count; of Sacramento and State of California, have invented certainnew and useful. Improvements in Bank- Ghecks; and I do hereby declarethe following to be full, clear, and erect description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to bank checks, and one of the principal objects or the invention is to provide a check which cannot be raised or :.iltered Without discovery on the part of the paying teller.

Another object of the invention is to provide a. check form in which the position of the initial letter of the amount for which the check is drawn will be indicated by its position upon the check thus rendering itv impossible to alter or raise-the check without detection. i

The foregoing and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompany drawing, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a check made in accordance with this invention, and Fig. is a face view of another check made out for a. different amount. I

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a check' as an entirety, said check having otthe left-hand'end thereof a series of vertical lines 2, and extending across between the lines toward the left progressively are the first letters of the alphabet beginning with A and as shown ending with l(,-nlthough any desired number of letters may be used: The letters in the. horizontal. column indicated by the nu- ;meral 3, are for the purpose of indicating the face value of the check when properly written. Extending centrally from rightto left across the check is e line l which is the line upon which the amount of the check is indicated' In making out the check, the amount for which the check is to be drawn has its initial letter located in one of the vertical columns separated by the lines 2. For instance, if a check is to be drawn for five dollars, as shown in Fig. l, the letter F indicated by the numeral 5 in Fig. 1, is to be started at the right of the first right hand vertical line *3. All checks made for companies are to he coon tersigned by the secretary or other oflicer,

end as shown in Fig 1, the signature 5 is written on the first right hand line As shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the signature 6 is written in thecoh'imn D'imd since the CllGCl-i is made out for tl "ee hundred annals the-initial letter '1" r "Thu-e h third letter the 'lhrce he word. in the column C, being thewf the alphabet and representhig in three hundred. It will he obvious that if the check were to be mode-T. out for five hundred dollars, the F would be start-ed in the vertical column E and the sccretarys signature would be immediatelv to the lert of the initial letter. Where the signature spgeers inthe column A- andthe check is made out for one hundred dollars or less, the check may be detached immediately to the left of the letter AI when a check is made out for two hundred lars and the signature is in the column the check is detached ir'ninedi'zitlyto the left of the column B, and so on throughout the vseries. Thus each "check for "a. larger amount is somewhat longer than checks for smaller amounts. A

From the foregoing, it will he obvious that in order to alter or raise the check made invtccordance with this inventi'oil, it would be necessary to erase the signature of the secretory first and then to erase the entire face value of the check in order to extend the initial letter toward the left for.

giving a greater amount.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a clieck made in accordancewith this invention cannot be altered or ra sed w1thout an extraordinary amountof erasures and rcprcparation, and such erasures and rewriting of the (.llGCll would be readily 'dis-' a series of vertical columns separzitednby vertical lines, letters of the alphabet com-Y mencing with A in the upper end of the right hand column and progressing in reg nlnr order toward the le to the'last column. one letter for each c. luinn, and a central horizontal line for the amount of the check extending entirely across the entire check and intersecting the vertical column and lines, the vertical lines serving for the signature of the secretary of the company, and the central line extending through the check having the initial letter of the amount for which the check is drawn located in the column representing the number of dollars, and the first vertical line to the left of the said column having the amount to which the check is drawn to receive the secretarys l0 signature, substantially as-set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of. two witnesses.

PRESLEY B. JOHNSON.

\Vitnesses:

W. C. RoBo'rHAu, M. L. BIDWELL. 

